The effective management of digital rights is a crucial challenge in many industries making the transition from physical to digital products. We present an economic model that cha...
In this work, we address investment decisions in production systems by using real options. As is standard in literature, the stochastic variable is assumed to be normally distribu...
In a transaction-time temporal object database management system (TODBMS), updating an object creates a new version of the object, but the old version is still accessible. A TODBM...
We study the efficient evaluation of top-k queries over data items, where the score of each item is dynamically computed by applying an item-specific function whose parameter valu...
Lin Guo, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Jay...
Gene expression (microarray) data have been used widely in bioinformatics. The expression data of a large number of genes from small numbers of subjects are used to identify inform...